FREE Onsite Seminar Series: Modern Heroine

Free Onsite Community Seminar SeriesModern Heroine Autobiographies
Tuesday, January 28, 2025​The genre of autobiography necessarily invokes difficulties of subjectivity, omission, and distortion. At the same time, what one chooses to write about oneself can also be highly illuminating. Nowhere will this tension, and treasure, better reveal itself than in the autobiography of the modern heroine. In addition to the fruitful knowledge any reader would gain from a male writer of historic note, the modern heroine is also a witness, and an inspiration, of the dramatic evolution of technology, equality, and gender politics of the 20th century. We invite you to join this onsite series, reading autobiographies about one month apart.​January 28 Reading:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou​Readings in the Series:The Story of my Life by Helen Keller - ISBN 978-0451531568The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - PDF onlineArt and Writing of Georgia O'KeeffeI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - ISBN 978-0345514400Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir - ISBN 978-0060825195The Fun of It by Amelia Earhart - ISBN 978-0915864553The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt - ISBN 978-0062355911​Schedule:12:00-1:30PM PSTTutor: Andy Gilman​Location: The Ojai Library 111 East Ojai AvenueOjai, California 93023